A new year is about to start and that can only mean one thing. (Or two things if you include trying to figure out WTF “Auld Lang Syne” means…) All over the world, people are about to go to a lot of time and trouble to come up with New Year’s resolutions and then they will actually try to keep those resolutions. This is so wrong in so many ways:
What’s the best thing about renting a house for the holidays? Between my jeans with stretch lycra and the fact that …
So… you want to write a fantasy novel? I know! You could have a medieval-type world where the Dark Lord, once …
While I’m travelling this week, here’s another Blast from Barb’s past — originally published in Champaign Urbana News Gazette, December, …
You might have heard me mention a time or twenty that I enjoy tropes. [Hey! that’s a rhetorical question—don’t think I can’t see you rolling your eyes…]
I wish I could explain to Donald Trump what I told them. “There’s no such thing as Politically Correct. It’s just your way of saying that a big issue doesn’t exist because you don’t value it. So you deflect the debate onto what constitutes humor, or workplace camaraderie, or whatever else you want to call it. But to paraphrase the Bard—A turd by any other name would still smell like crap.”
[NOTE: another repeat post from a few years ago. Because some of us haven’t finished our Christmas shopping. From last …
“Normally,” they told us, “We wouldn’t hesitate to arrest the lot of you.”
Memorable characters: writers may create them, but readers give them life My guest blogger today is Cathy Ryan, well-known for …
Last year, we celebrated Thanksgiving in Glasgow. I already knew it would be difficult to get a turkey, as they …
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